Further Reading

The works listed below include the standard works on manorial records and publications relating to manorial records in Cumbria. For a comprehensive listing of works relating to manor courts, see the bibliography compiled by Dr Christopher Harrison of Keele University (Manor
Court Bibliography and Vocabulary).

Hodgson, W, 'A century of "paines" or local government in the time of
the Stuarts, as illustrated by extracts from "A Paine Book for the Hamlet
of Weathermelock"', Transactions of Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian
& Archaeological Society, old series 7 (1883), 27-47.

Winchester, Angus J L, The Harvest of the Hills: reural life in northern England and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700, Edinburgh University Press, 2000 [Includes the texts of manor court byelaws from Windermere, Alston Moor and Wasdale Head]